Re: Haskell in Debian
Giuliano P Procida <myxie@debian.org> writes:
> b) ghc runs out of heap compiling its parser
>
> The file ParseIface.hs (in ghc/compiler) needs more than 64M but no more
> than 128M of heap to compile. With 64M of RAM and not too much else
> (X and ntpd) running you are looking at 1500+ garbage collections for
> about 1.5G of allocation. This file took 10-20 minutes on my machine.
Just FYI, accidently I found at the GHC site that this file can cause
trouble, there is memory leak. (see
<http://research.microsoft.com/users/t-simonm/ghc/download_ghc_402.html>)
Regards,
Rui
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